PERSONAL ITEMS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14303, 24 February 1910, Page 6

PERSONAL ITEMS.

: Mr. James T. Muir has decided to contest ! the Wanganui Mayoralty.

' Mr. A. Osborne, of Sydney, returns to Australia by the Malieno on Monday next.

{ Jlr. N. T. Lambourne has been advised y that he has obtained his M.A. degree in | political science. „

\ Mr. Edward Monsley, of Kings College, i lias been successful in passing his thud j section of the LL.B. degree. * •

• Dr. Newman was waited upon by a deis putation which asked him to reconsider his 1 decision not to seek re-election as Mayor ot : Wellington (states a Press Association mesI sage). . Dr. Newman promised to reply m a few days.

The Bishop of Tonga (Dr. illis) and ' ]Mri>. Willis arrived at. Auckland by the . Alua last evening. Their stay will be 1 a . short one, /lis they intend to return : homeward by the same vessel, which I leaves here on March 1. ■

Tho Hon. J. A. Millar, Minister for Rail : wavy, leaves Wellington for Australia by the" Manuka 011 March 25 (slates a Press Association message). He visits Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Adelaide, and returns to Wellington. He expects to be absent from the Dominion about live weeks.

' Mr. William Jones, one of tho oldest settlers in Hamilton, died at his residence last night. Deceased, who was the only brother of the- late Archbishop of Halifax, had. reachcd tho'ripe age of 82 years. He was born in County Cork. Ireland, and came -to New "' Zealand 43 - years ago, and almost'' immediately came to Hamilton, taking tip a farm a few • miles out. Latterly/'however, he had resided in the' town. 4 ? Deceased took an active part in local matters, and was for' some years _ a member of the Hamilton Borough Council, as "well a-s clerk to the Newcastle Road Board arid a number of other public bodies, Ho was also one of the oldest justices of the peace in tho, district. He leaves a family of four sons and four daughters, Mr*. Jonw having . predeceased him by about 15 months. • - " '